Mastodawn

You didn't need another reason to hate Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram), but here ya go anyway:

Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.

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Every Fedi instance that preemptively blocked Threads is good and should feel good.

@soatok what are they doing now

also i block threads, literally the only instance i block right now

@wyatt @soatok
I strongly recommend preemptively blocking nazi/troll instances - especially if you have other users on your instance.

It took about a year on my old single-user instance, but I eventually got dogpiled pretty good. It was a laugh for me, but everyone's milage varies.

I have used #GardenFence for a few years now and can't recommend staying up–to-date with it enough:

A fediverse blocklist generated from a small list of reference servers known to actively moderate against hate and harassment.